T-Mobile Slips as Hacker Calls Its Security Awful

By Dhirendra Tripathi

Investing.com – T-Cell inventory (NASDAQ:) fell 1% in Thursday’s buying and selling because the hacker who stole knowledge on 50 million of the corporate’s clients instructed The Wall Avenue Journal that the safety of the cellular provider’s community is “terrible.”

John Binns, a 21-year-old American who moved to Turkey just a few years in the past, instructed WSJ he was behind the safety breach that got here to gentle within the second week of this month.

With 104.8 million clients on the finish of June, T-Cell is the nation’s third largest provider. It has Deutsche Telekom (OTC:) as its majority shareholder.

The data leak carried social safety numbers, telephone numbers, names, bodily addresses, distinctive identifier numbers, and driver license info of T-Cell’s clients, in response to a earlier report by Vice Media’s Motherboard technology-news web site.

As per the WSJ report, stolen knowledge belonged to potential shoppers or former clients.

Binns instructed WSJ he hacked into the cellphone provider’s knowledge middle outdoors East Wenatchee, Washington, the place saved credentials allowed him to entry greater than 100 servers.

“I used to be panicking as a result of I had entry to one thing large,” he wrote. “Their safety is terrible,” he instructed WSJ.

He declined to remark when requested by WSJ whether or not he had offered any of the stolen knowledge or whether or not he was paid to breach T-Cell.